I. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an evil spell
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The people still believe in evil spells.
evil deed
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She tried to strangle her baby and her lover helped her finish the evil deed .
good and evil
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the struggle between good and evil
the root of all evil
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The love of money is the root of all evil .
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
day
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It culminates in Athens, just when Athens too was falling upon evil days .
deed
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Endued with evenness of mind, one casts off in this very life both good deeds and evil deeds.
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It was Ariel who tortured Antonio and the king with visions that made them repent their evil deeds .
empire
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Just the thing to bring down the evil empire .
eye
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It can nullify the evil eye .
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They avoided our glances as if we might bestow the evil eye .
force
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Zarathustra interpreted the struggle between good and evil forces in ethical terms, and he believed that it pervaded the whole universe.
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Are they evil , or does an evil force temporarily inhabit their soul?
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True, they are playing with great danger, but they may never really experience communion with the evil force behind astrology.
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KineHUHre is used as a verbal device similar to knocking on wood to ward off evil forces .
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Yet the artists engaged in these works were in no mood to present the barbarians as the incarnation of evil forces .
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He was just temporarily subjugated by an evil force .
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The 1950s language of good and evil forces , of worldwide pacts, bases and influence is their natural speech.
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Ahab feels then that he must destroy these evil forces in order to survive as a free man.
man
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Mr. Beck is an evil man .
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But Hoxey is man evil man, Father.
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Are we good or evil men ?
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He did not consider himself an evil man .
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He is an evil man , bad, very bad.
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Did I mention that the Princess's brother is really quite an evil man ?
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Ben takes you there and he brings you back, but there are the in-between times, and evil men are clever.
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If once Odysseus got home those evil men would have a short shrift and a bitter end.
power
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The acceptance of these gifts would keep the child safe from evil powers for life.
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Balor had two eyes, one being invested with so much evil power that it took four men to lift the eye-lid.
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He told the woman she was a witch and was holding her husband under a strange and evil power .
spirit
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He healed the sick, raised the dead, exercised authority over the evil spirits and forgave sins.
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Two green glazed lions guarded the gates to keep evil spirits at bay.
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Firstly, it is not the case that the evil spirits of the New Testament are remotely similar to animist spirits.
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Ancient evil spirits went by a new name.
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It was commonly believed that some evil spirits lost their strength in daylight.
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Blake was skeptical, wondering if it were really an evil spirit .
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The demonic figures wearing ugly masks and straw and brushwood clothes are intended to scare away evil spirits .
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They crack cart whips to drive away evil spirits .
things
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He has done evil things , but to me he is still the little boy I loved and cared for.
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Power does strange and evil things .
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Telling me the strangest things sometimes, evil things - till I want to shout out or smash them to pieces.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the forces of good/evil etc
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At the core of Hampden Babylon is a titanic struggle between the forces of good and evil.
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It could fight the forces of evil.
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It is an age-old heresy to see the world as a battleground between the forces of good and evil.
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It will be a struggle between your hero and whatever associates he may have and the forces of evil opposed to him.
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Now he's restating his submission to the Bara Bhai and the forces of good.
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Television is therefore seen to be taking the moral high ground, the side of the punter against the forces of evil.
the powers of good/evil/darkness
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May we seek to develop the powers of good that lie within us.
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So close to the powers of evil she must have lived that she still breathed more freely in their air.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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In the movie, the hero has to rescue the world from an evil scientist.
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Sue says that TV talk shows are evil .
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There's an evil smell coming from the fridge.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Blake was skeptical, wondering if it were really an evil spirit.
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Or did evil Uncle Humbert destroy it, because under the law he would then get a piece of the action?
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The dark, evil , beautiful one.
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The eyes of the lynch mob were uncomprehendingly evil .
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What I and my friends put down to evil witchcraft, my enemies are likely to attribute to incompetence or bad management.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
great
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This great evil is rooted in systematic injustice.
lesser
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While not particularly welcome, the black knight is considered the lesser of two evils .
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So people go to the polls convinced their only choice is the lesser of two evils .
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Here reasoned choice between lesser evils was the course which brought the least ill on humanity.
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If it comes to the crunch, going in would seem to me the lesser evil .
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It isn't the perfect way; it remains horrible, but the lesser of many evils .
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At least they chose the lesser of two evils , but even so Tank managed to create havoc.
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In a continent where economic successes are rare, authoritarianism may seem a lesser evil than abject poverty.
necessary
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If necessary one evil will fight with another in order to advantage itself.
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However, the authors, like most others then and now, saw those shortcomings as a necessary evil in maintaining control.
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They viewed such methods as a necessary evil , unavoidable yet somehow beneath their dignity.
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Lawyers are a necessary evil that I try to use as little as possible due to their cost.
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Mr Waldegrave's shambolic performance in the press conference was a necessary evil .
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It may be a necessary evil , but it is surely an evil.
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They're a necessary evil , like the woman who sawed off all my lovely hair.
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We do not look at government as a necessary evil .
social
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It is from closed minds that so many social evils flow.
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Is it because Nancy has been hospitalized or are smack and crack no longer regarded as social evils numbers one and two?
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There is no overtly political comment, and hardly any mention of social evils such as racism and sexism.
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Country sports are not social evils .
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Redundancy is not a social evil .
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That as the State withered away, so would sexism, racism and all other unpleasant social evils .
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Just as the slums, squalor and muddle of towns and cities could be overcome by planning, so could social evils .
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Overtime Overtime is a business disease and a social evil Throwing money at a problem is the most ineffective form of management.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a necessary evil
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I, for one, consider yard work to be a necessary evil.
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Bureaucracy was also a necessary evil to cope with the ravages of war.
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However, the authors, like most others then and now, saw those shortcomings as a necessary evil in maintaining control.
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It may be a necessary evil, but it is surely an evil.
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Lawyers are a necessary evil that I try to use as little as possible due to their cost.
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Mr Waldegrave's shambolic performance in the press conference was a necessary evil.
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They're a necessary evil, like the woman who sawed off all my lovely hair.
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They viewed such methods as a necessary evil, unavoidable yet somehow beneath their dignity.
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We do not look at government as a necessary evil.
be evil/beauty/greed etc incarnate
the forces of good/evil etc
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At the core of Hampden Babylon is a titanic struggle between the forces of good and evil.
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It could fight the forces of evil.
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It is an age-old heresy to see the world as a battleground between the forces of good and evil.
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It will be a struggle between your hero and whatever associates he may have and the forces of evil opposed to him.
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Now he's restating his submission to the Bara Bhai and the forces of good.
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Television is therefore seen to be taking the moral high ground, the side of the punter against the forces of evil.
the lesser evil
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Celibacy is, at best, the lesser evil; by no means is it regarded as a panacea.
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If it comes to the crunch, going in would seem to me the lesser evil.
the lesser of two evils
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At least they chose the lesser of two evils, but even so Tank managed to create havoc.
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Mansfield saw the difficulty in reconciling the two principles, but thought that certainty was the lesser of two evils.
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So people go to the polls convinced their only choice is the lesser of two evils.
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They regarded the ditching of a widely respected Chancellor, in somewhat undignified circumstances, as the lesser of two evils.
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While not particularly welcome, the black knight is considered the lesser of two evils.
the powers of good/evil/darkness
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May we seek to develop the powers of good that lie within us.
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So close to the powers of evil she must have lived that she still breathed more freely in their air.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Dad gave us a lecture on the evils of smoking.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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His songs were melancholy pictures of life and love and the evils of the consumer revolution.
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I could not understand why men who knew all about good and evil could hate and kill each other.
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In his speech, he said that the white man is the cause of all evil .
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Johnson: Moral evil is occasioned by free will, which implies choice between good and evil.
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Only 14 days for the seven years to be increased to the sentence that fits his crimes and his evil - life.
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Posidonius considered the chattel-slavery of his time an evil .
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Wars, revolutions, crimes all the evils that beset mankind could be traced to them.